North by Northeast (NXNE)
Various Venues – Toronto, Canada
6/14 to 6/20/10

650 bands, 50 stages, 40 films, 15 conference sessions. Now in its 16th year, North by Northeast showcases great new music and music-related films. For seven days and nights in June, music takes over Toronto: live performances, films, the newest music-biz ideas, a digital interactive conference—all within a few kilometers of each other. →

An exhibition of works by Andreas Gursky
Gagosian Gallery – Beverly Hills, CA
Opening reception – 3/4/10

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Andreas Gursky to inaugurate the newly expanded Beverly Hills gallery, designed by Richard Meier & Partners. In the two adjacent main galleries, Gursky will present a new series of large-scale works as well as a grouping of subjects that he has selected from the last twenty years, from the landscape Mûlheim an der Ruhr, Anglers (1989) to the empty scene of Untitled XV (2008). →

The folks who brought you last year’s breakthrough documentary Food, Inc. will release in North American theaters another film chronicling another one of our most pressing crises. Written and directed by Lucy Walker (The Devil’s Playground), Countdown to Zero features appearances by Valerie Plame Wilson, President Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharaff and Tony Blair and makes a compelling case for nuclear disarmament →

Fashion magazines are not the only ones infamous for their sexiness and edginess. Fire & Knives, a quarterly food magazine produced in London and edited by Tim Hayward of the Guardian, is the magazine that is all about the sexy featuring Thermos flasks and quail eggs: it is porn for food lovers. The magazine focuses on a variety of topics and cute illustrations to go along with it. The magazine released their first launch back in November 2009 and has stuck strictly to print only (very brave move). Designed by the firm Supermundane and produced by the independent print shop Present Joys, Fire & Knives is the perfect guilty pleasure for a stressful work day.

When it comes to futuristic and innovative ideas, Japan is one of those countries to jump on it. Currently, the Japanese government have yet another ambitious dream worth billions of dollars, to produce clean energy in unlimited amounts. This dream has been in the works for a while now, but with the dependence on imports due to their limited sources of energy they have now, it will take time and persistence. Aside from their ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Japan has set their sights on the development of the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), which is set to launch by 2030. The SSPS is created from a series of →

When’s the last time you gave back to someone else in your community? The Social Trust (TST) is partnering with American Red Cross for a blood drive to save those in need. The blood drive will run from 1 P.M. to 7 P.M. so you have plenty of time to make your →

Design in the Blood
Design Opinion

I’ll admit it doesn’t happen too often, but today I’m speechless. I usually have to look far and wide for examples of dubious design that should be punishable in a court of law…or at least punishable by ridicule and a loss of face. Sometimes I can pull a good example from a mental checklist of past observations, but not often does a multi-faceted specimen of frivolity fall on my lap so neatly, confirming all along that the realm of celebrity design has reached its peak of pointlessness. In this situation however, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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Meet Ray Mate, co-founder of Mighty Healthy skatewear company. He is a native New Yorker whose affinity for New York is true bred. Known for his iconic tee “I loved New York before you moved here and made it suck,” Mate, along with his partner Denis Iderman of Mighty Healthy, have been killing it.

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What does your lifestyle consist of? Would you rather walk to the local grocery store or do you find yourself driving even though it’s a ten minute walk? Welcome to the life of Jeff Heie where he and his family transitioned into the minimalist, greener world of sourcing their energy locally. →

Work by Nobuyoshi Araki
PRISM-W. Hollywood, CA
03/06/10-03/09/10

PRISM, LA’s exciting new addition to the art landscape, is pleased to present it’s sophomore show, “Araki: A Perspective,”a collection of works by world renowned Japanese photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki. The exhibition will feature approximately 70 works by Araki, whose thought provoking photography has garnered international acclaim and stirred up controversy around the globe. →